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U.S. NEWS Thursday 13 July 2017

DA: Man held on $5M cash bail amid search for 4 missing men

By MARYCLAIRE DALE an unrelated gun charge. sure he remained behind tant evidence had been “The search at the scene
ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE His father put up $100,000 bars because he posed an found both at the farm is really intensifying,” Wein-
Associated Press to bail him out Tuesday. even greater flight risk. Di- about 30 miles (48 kilome- traub said late Wednes-
A 20-year-old man was day upon announcing the
arrested Wednesday on arrest. “I’m very encour-
charges of trying to sell a aged ... that we’re going
car belonging to one of to get some finality in this
four missing Pennsylva- just prolonged ordeal.”
nia men, and a prosecu- Besides Meo, 21, the other
tor said he believed there missing men are Mark St-
would soon be “finality” in urgis, 22, and Dean Finoc-
the search for the appar- chiaro and Jimi Tar Patrick,
ent victims of foul play. both 19. Patrick disap-
Authorities got perhaps peared last Wednesday;
their biggest break with the other three vanished
the discovery Sunday of Friday. At least three of
one of the men’s cars. In them were friends.
a subsequent search of According to a police af-
Tom Meo’s vehicle, inves- fidavit, police found Meo’s
tigators found his diabetes car Sunday on a DiNardo
medicine, which his family family property in Solebury,
said he never went any- the town where the farm is
where without. also located. They said the
A judge ordered Cosmo Di- keys and a title were hang-
Nardo, whose family owns ing up in a garage. A wit-
the farmland where a mas- ness said DiNardo offered
sive search has been un- to sell him the car on Sat-
derway since Sunday, held Investigators gather under tents as they search a property, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Solebury, urday.
on $5 million cash bail on Pa., for four missing young Pennsylvania men feared to be the victims of foul play. On the last night Meo and
the stolen vehicle charges. (Clem Murray/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP) Sturgis were seen, a po-
DiNardo was described as lice license plate scanner
a person of interest in the District Attorney Matthew Nardo was described as a ters) north of Philadelphia picked up DiNardo’s truck
investigation after he was Weintraub said he wanted danger to the community. and other properties, but and Meo’s car driving just
first arrested Monday on a higher bond to make The prosecutor said impor- no human remains. seconds apart. q

Mother of Baby Doe sentenced to time served, probation

BOSTON (AP) — The mother Bond, 41, pleaded guilty in bedroom and saw McCar- the brown-eyed, chubby- Dan Conley defended the
of a 2-year-old girl who be- a deal with prosecutors to thy punching her daughter cheeked girl was shared by plea agreement, saying he
came known as Baby Doe a charge of being an ac- hard in the abdomen. She millions on social media as would not have been able
after her remains washed cessory after the fact in the said she did not report her police worked to solve the to prosecute McCarthy
ashore in a trash bag will 2015 killing of her daughter, daughter’s death to police mystery of who she was. without making a deal with
be released from jail after Bella. because McCarthy threat- Three months later, both Bond. Conley said there’s
serving less than two years Last month, Bond’s ex-boy- ened to kill her. Bond and McCarthy were no evidence Bond played
for her role in disposing of friend, Michael McCarthy, Bella Bond’s remains were arrested after Bond told a a direct role in her daugh-
her daughter’s body. was convicted of second- found in a plastic bag that friend that McCarthy had ter’s death.
Under the sentence im- degree murder and sen- washed up on Deer Island killed her daughter. Bond’s attorney, Janice
posed Wednesday, tenced to life in prison in in Boston Harbor in June McCarthy’s lawyer spent Bassil, said Bond, a recov-
Rachelle Bond is expect- Bella’s killing. 2015. days aggressively cross-ex- ering heroin user, will head
ed to be released from As part of her plea agree- As authorities scrambled amining Bond and told the directly from jail to a drug
jail Friday and go directly ment, Bond testified against to identify her, she was jury she was the real killer. rehabilitation facility.
to a residential substance McCarthy at his trial, telling dubbed Baby Doe. A com- After Bond was sentenced, “She has nothing,” Bassil
abuse treatment facility. jurors she walked into a puter-generated image of Suffolk District Attorney said.q